There is an elephant on the loo!

"Two New York Daily News reporters recently tested their flip flops after walking around the city for four days and found that the rubber shoes picked up about 18,100 bacteria of the five most prevalent varieties found. Among the bacteria detected was the potentially deadly Staphylococcus aureus."

"Dr. Charles P. Gerba -- professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona -- says that 93 percent of flip flops will have fecal bacteria after three months of wear, and 20 percent will have E. coli."

It is now routine practice to use insect larvae to perform initial testing of new drugs, and then to use the typical laboratory white mice for confirmation tests. This method is much faster and cheaper.

The African Chikungunya virus has now adopted to the common Asian tiger mosquito as a carrier. Infections are more severe than West Nile virus infections. Something to look foreward to during next summer for the survivors of the swine flu.

The novel is most famous for a letter it omits; written as a lipogram, it purposefully does not use "e" in any word. It inspired other authors to write lipogrammatic books, including Georges Perec's famous novel A Void.

Tattoos ..
Our grandfathers used tattoos for different uses to show status , their position in the economy , their skill etc ..
But in some places tattoos are used as a DEATH CERTIFICATE !!!
Yes its true , people are used tattoos to identify the dead body.

Mantis shrimps have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom. They can see in 12 primary colors, four times as many as humans, and can also detect different kinds of light polarization. The shrimp's cell membranes are rolled into tubes, which researchers hope could be mimicked in the lab using liquid crystals. This would greatly increase the information obtained from a DVD sensor using such technology.

China has 720 million cellular subscribers, that is more than that of the US and Europe combined. They are rolling out 3G mobile services nationwide, which should give their Government Internet Censors quite a workout.